Transcript The birthplace of the renaissance

Unit 4:
task two power point
The beginning of the Renaissance
The Crusades
• Contact with the
Muslims opened up
Europe to ancient
Greek and Roman
thought and
discoveries, paving
the way for the
renaissance.
Patriarch
• The failure of later
crusades lessen the power
of the pope and feudal
nobles.
• The religious spirit of the
First Crusade faded,
replaced by a search for
personal gain.
Muslims
• They preserved the writings of old Greek
philosophers which Jewish scholars then
translated into Latin.
• Europeans acquired a huge new body of
knowledge in science, law, math and
philosophy.
• Crusaders brought back with them superior
Muslim technology in ships navigation and
weapons.
Greek and Roman influences
• Art and literature benefited from
the rediscovery of Greek and
Roman artworks and aesthetic
ideals.
University
• The word originally designated a group of
scholars meeting wherever they could.
• People, not buildings, made up the
medieval university.
• Universities arose at Paris, France;
Bologna and Salerno, Italy and Oxford,
England.
Aristotle
• Was a major influence on scholars such as
Thomas Aquinas who wrote the Summa
Theologica that combined ancient Greek
thought with the Christian thought of that
time.
• The scholastics used their knowledge of
Aristotle to debate issues of their time.
• Democratic institutions and traditions
began to develop.
Vernacular
• At a time when serious scholars and writers were
writing in Latin, a few remarkable poets began
using the everyday language of their homeland.
• Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy in
Italian.
• Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in
English.
• Christine de Pisan wrote The City of Ladies in
French.
The birthplace of
the Renaissance
• SEVERAL IMPORTANT CITIES
•WEALTHY AND POWERFUL BANKERS AND
MERCHANTS
• ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS
HUMANISM
• A renewed interest in the classical past becomes
an important value in Renaissance culture.
• Scholars attempted to understand Christian
teachings on their own terms.
• Emphasis switched from spiritual values to things
of the world this was expressed by powerful and
wealthy people paying artists, writers, and
musicians to create beautiful works of art.
• Men who succeeded in mastering many fields of
study or work was greatly admired.
• An example of this ideal would be Leonardo Da
Vinci.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Da Vinci was a painter, scientist, and inventor.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo showed great skill as an architect, a
sculptor, and a painter. His work is an example of
a more realistic style and the use of perspective.
Raphael
Raphael began to modify the style he had learned, gradually
assimilating the new techniques of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli took a new
approach to understanding
government. He focused on telling
rulers how to expand their power,
even if that meant taking steps
that the Church might view as evil.
Johann Guttenberg
In 1440 he used the new invention of movable type and in
1445 he produced his first book- The Bible.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is widely viewed as the greatest playwright
of all time. His plays showed a brilliant command of the English
language and a deep understanding of people and how they
interact with one another.
All information is taken from the world history
textbook except for the information on Raphael, that
was found
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/raphael.html. All
pictures were found in Google images.